PARIAH Ignites Debut Album Era With “Burn The Sky” Featuring Lonny Eagleton of BLACK VEIL BRIDES

PARIAH, the sonic exorcism of vocalist Quinn McGraw, returns with “Burn The Sky,” a scorched-earth anthem featuring Lonny Eagleton of Black Veil Brides. The track is the first single from PARIAH’s debut full-length album, Holy Ruin, and the first music the project has released as a full band, with Bronson Wheeler (guitar) and Mickael “Mikey” Wilkinson (drums) joining McGraw.

Where January 2026’s debut EP Swansong documented one last, all-in attempt at a dream that had taken everything, Holy Ruin goes deeper into existential and philosophical territory. Told through the guise of myth and released as three EPs, the album is a confession: it follows a soul chasing salvation after losing someone he loves, unable to escape his grief. The full record moves between the heaviest and prettiest music PARIAH has written to date, exploring loss, grief, and spiritual collapse.

“Burn The Sky” is where that story catches fire. Over a blend of alternative metal, post-metalcore, beatdown, and dark-pop production, McGraw takes aim at false idols, leaving the main character feeling “enslaved, a mortal bind / oppressed by the divine” and realizing that if salvation is a lie, he will tear it down. The chorus lands like a declaration of war: “Burn the sky, let the ashes fall / Tear the throne from its holy walls / If paradise is a poisoned dream / I’ll light the match to make it clean.”

But the rage carries a wound. Between the song’s most violent moments—“Cull the herd, skin the wolves / hiding among the sheep”—sit lines of grief and doubt: “I pray that you find peace / deep in the womb of Death” and, finally, “I watch as Heaven weeps / Will you forgive me?” It closes on a single, chilling resolution: “I’m emptying Heaven.”

‘Burn The Sky’ is the moment grief turns into fury,” McGraw says. “The lengths we will go to avoid our grief are limitless. We go looking for answers, fail to find them, and can even blame the Divine for our loss. This song is intentionally angry, but ultimately beneath it all there's a deep sorrow and a yearning to be forgiven. It's my way of tearing everything down, hoping that beneath the rubble I'll find my peace again."

On bringing in Eagleton, McGraw adds: “Having Lonny on this track means a lot. We actually grew up together, and the first band we ever played in middle school was called At Risk. It's been amazing to see the career he's built since then, and for him to go on and join Black Veil Brides (a band that means so much to so many of is) is such a beautiful thing. Having him part of the first chapter of Holy Ruin feels like the right way to start, and it was amazing getting to reconnect musically.” REVOLVER says “PARIAH glows with Byzantium effervescence.”

PARIAH’s listeners have found their own grief, doubt, and quiet unraveling in the music, and felt seen because of it. Out of that, a global community has formed: the Seekers. As McGraw puts it, PARIAH is “heavy music for heavy hearts.”

PARIAH began in a “dark night of the soul." After selling every instrument he owned and trying to make peace with walking away from music for good, McGraw wrote his debut EP 'Swansong' as a last rite for twenty years spent chasing a dream that never materialized. With “Burn The Sky,” that last rite has become a beginning. PARIAH remains an invitation: to find our voice again, to find what still burns, to find the light when we wander in the dark, and to always keep seeking.